Malcolm Whyte

Malcolm Whyte is an author, editor, publisher, and founder of the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco.[1] He has produced nearly 200 books, 45 of which he has written or co-written. His taste is for unique, offbeat ideas with a sense of good humor and produced with an eye for color and beautiful graphics as represented by The Original Old Radio Game (possibly the world's first trivia book) from 1965 to a completely revised edition of Great Comic Cats[2] in 2001 and Maxon Crumb: The Monograph,[3] 2010.

Whyte lives in Marin County, California with his wife, author Karen Cross Whyte.

Whyte founded Troubador Press in 1959 as a job printer and designer/printer of greetings cards. In 1967 the press published its first book, The Fat Cat Coloring & Limerick Book with art by Donna Sloan and verses by Whyte.

The artist of Beasties Coloring Book (1970), Vernon Koski, was posthumously selected to have his ashes incorporated into a painting, which is in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[4][5][6]Winston Tong did the artwork for The Dinosaur Coloring Book (1969).[7] Other artists include Ruth Heller, Maze Craze, Color & Puzzle; Greg Irons, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons; William Gilkerson, The Scrimshander; Elizabeth Miles, Mother Goose Coloring Album; Morrie Turner, Black & White Coloring Book; Phil Frank, San Francisco Scenes, Travels with Farley; and Andrea Tachiera,[8]Tropical Fish Coloring Album, Color of Nature Series.

In 1994 Whyte founded Word Play Publications to publish limited, signed illustrated books, among them Goreyography, the bibliography of the works of Edward Gorey, photo-documentary of underground cartoonists The Underground Comix Family Album,[9] and Maxon’s Poe illustrated by Maxon Crumb.